A homemade ZX81 keyboard of wood

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Re: A homemade ZX81 keyboard of wood

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Paul wrote: Mon Sep 02, 2019 6:27 pm Because nothing compares to a real Cherry Keyboard with ZX81 professional printed keycaps.
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My homemade keyboard has Cherry keys (well... Chinese Cherry, I ripped out the keys from the cheapest keyboard I could find :) ) but I haven't figured out how to "professionally" print the keycaps. I just glued bits of paper on top of the keys. :) It looks sad now. I have 2 Ti99's I could sacrifice but I'm not going to do it till I figure out how to silk-screen keys or something...

Even if the germans only make nice keycaps and not a full keyboard that will probably sell well at a decent price (with a extra keycap for delete or rubout option). :)
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Re: A homemade ZX81 keyboard of wood

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The German ZX-Team has made a few of the keyboards with PCB and custom keys. It seems the fabrication of custom keys are only done by few companies world wide, and are very expensive in small volumes. Since this is spare time and private funding I think it will be another year before it's publicly available for sale in this forum.

(Currently the PCBs and cherry switches has been sold with regular German keys.)

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Re: A homemade ZX81 keyboard of wood

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